Prison Officer Charged In Child's Sexual Abuse

NEWS IN BRIEF

September 18, 1997

CLERMONT — A correctional officer at Lake Correctional Institution was charged Wednesday with sexual battery on a child by the Sumter County Sheriff's Office.

Jacob Mac Wright, 34, of Bushnell was being held on $50,000 bond. His arrest came after a five-week investigation which revealed that the child is now pregnant. The results of a DNA test revealed a 99.9 percent probability that Wright is the father of the unborn baby, Sumter authorities said. Wright worked at the prison 10 years.